Hi Petr,

List!s are actually stored differently from blocks, paths and hashes, so 
any operation on them requires special code that has not been implemented 
for all action types.

  - jim

At 12:57 PM 6/10/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I today looked at hash and list datatypes and found out following:
>
>->> probe huh
>make list! [1 2 3]
>== make list! [1 2 3]
>->> print pick huh 1
>1
>->> print at huh 1
>** Script Error: Cannot use at on list! value.
>** Where: print at huh 1
>->> help at
>Returns the series at the specified index.
>Arguments:
>     series --  (series)
>     index -- Can be positive, negative, or zero. (number)
>->> series? "asdfda"
>== true
>->> series? huh
>== true
>->>
>
>hmm, so list is a series, help for 'at refers to series, but 'at will
>not work upon 'list datatype? Any reason?
>
>second:
>
>->> huh/1
>** Script Error: Cannot use path on list! value.
>** Where: huh/1
>->>
>
>Any reason path! doesn't work upon list? (it works with block and hash
>datatype though ...)
>
>Thanks,
>
>-pekr-

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